This is where i will be going on holiday in May 2020 with the Newcastle RSPB Group. Nowhere near as far as to the Outer Hebrides in May of this year 2019. Just received my booking form today believe it or not, the post by royal mail just arrived just before 4.30pm as on Monday and Tuesday morning the post arrived before 9.30am
Looks good, I'm sure you'll enjoy it, and we'll look forward to the report and photos
I had a fantastic weeks holiday in the Outer Hebrides and saw birds I’d never seen before. We all saw White Tailed Eagle(Sea Eagle), Great Northern Diver, and Red Throated Diver. We’ve all saw Golden Eagles as well, but we’ve all seen the Golden Eagle before when a pair nested with young near to Hawswater in the Lake District as a pair nested for many years as the RSPB used to have an observation point to view them with telescopes supplied. We also saw a pair of Whooper Swans nesting at a local community reserve on the Island of Harris, as I do know a very small population of that Swan nest in Northern Scotland, approx 23 pairs, but of course it will vary from year to year. Sadly none of our Group saw the Corncrake. But we heard them with there unique sound and when we visited RSPB reseve Balranald on North Uist, the Corncrake sounded only feet away, but stubbornly refused to come into view. There are a number of the members of the Newcastle RSPB Group who didn’t go on the Groups holiday have seen the Corncrake in the Outer Hebrides, going on holidays privately with there family’s a number of years ago.